6 comments:

jim masterson
said...

nice history lesson boys. There should be more Jewish football player at UM. Research. My father was at Nd in the mid 20's & a big Benny friedman fan. Notre Dame has always been philo-semetic.Marchy Schwartz,AA, fullback in 30 &31;Wayne Miller AA E.in the mid 30's; Mike Rosenthal AA, OL, mid 90"2 I'll find more. The most important Jewish person at Notre Dame? Glad you asked. The Lady on the Dome. jim masterson

Gee...I would think Jesus, or Yeshua as I like to call him, would be the most important Jewish person at ND. I mean, he is the Messiah of the Jewish people first after all...while Mary is just...well...how should I say? sans any real significance past the birth.

Unbeknownst to a lot of people, Alabama's enrollment actually increased during the depression (a rarity) because they heavily recruited Jewish students from the northeast that were being excluded from universities up north due to quotas.

At one point, there were as many as seven Jewish fraternities and sororities on campus and to this day you can minor in Judaic Studies.

Needless to say, many Jewish students wound up on the football field too.

I agree with Jim Masterson and with Nico . . . this was a nice gesture that offered an interesting historical perspective.

When I thought about great Georgia players who were Jewish, the first two to pop into my mind were Buzy Rosenberg, a punt returner and defensive back in the early 1970s, and Bill Goldberg, a defensive tackle in the late 1980s who later went on to greater fame as a professional wrestler (for which gig he dropped the "Bill").

I'm sure there are others and the idea is intriguing enough that I may do some digging to bring their names to light.

This was a thought-provoking idea on a most appropriate occasion. Nice job.

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